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Comment · 4 months ago
> Nobody in EU ever tried to build a domestic GPU that was even remotely comparable to Nvidia, ATI or 3Dfx for them to have failed.
Bitboys tried, but pivoted to embedded graphics and were bought by ATI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaze3D
Falanx Microsystems tried (not EU but close enough), also pivoted to mobile/embedded graphics and made the #1 shipping family of GPUs in the world: https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/mo...
Comment · 8 months ago
Or among those who want to support any build system
Comment · 10 months ago
> But I think just focusing on enjoyment in life is a poor human experience. Life has much more to offer that is equally interesting. Enjoyment isn't the only game in town.
I assume this person is employed, so they're probably already doing quite a lot more than just hedonistic enjoyment.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does his behavior perfectly match the people who made your life hell, or are you projecting?
Comment · 1 year ago
> This isn't the conclusion I was most hoping to reach before moving here; there's a world in which a robust safety net, paid for by such taxes, actually incentivizes entrepreneurship by cushioning the fall - but I just don't see the evidence for us living in that world, at least not here.
This seems to be the case in Sweden. Very high taxes, but a robust safety net, and a very high startup activity per capita: https://www.business-sweden.com/about-us/media/press-release...
So I'm not sure it's the taxation structures that are mainly to blame.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's called the yearly summer vacation in Europe. Why only every three to five years?
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess you don't eat any sugar either?
Also, strange to suggest banning caffeine when discussing a study finding that it reduces risk of death.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
The locals in those places _are_ voting with their wallets.
Comment · 8 years ago
AMD, not ATI.
Comment · 8 years ago
"In praise of the land value tax": http://theweek.com/articles/553242/praise-land-value-tax
The Wikipedia entry on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Comment · 8 years ago
Some more highlights:
> In terms of total returns, residential real estate and equities have shown very similar and high real total gains, on average about 7% per year.
> The data summary in Table 3 and Figure 2 show that residential real estate, not equity, has been the best long-run investment over the course of modern history.
> Although returns on housing and equities are similar, the volatility of housing returns is substantially lower, as Table 3 shows. Returns on the two asset classes are in the same ballpark— around 7%—but the standard deviation of housing returns is substantially smaller than that of equities (10% for housing versus 22% for equities).
> Predictably, with thinner tails, the compounded return (using the geometric average) is vastly better for housing than for equities—6.6% for housing versus 4.6% for equities. This finding appears to contradict one of the basic assumptions of modern valuation models: higher risks should come with higher rewards.
Seems the way the real estate market works has caused a big drain both on economic growth (as investments have gone into real estate rather than more productive products), and on economic equality.
So a Georgist land value tax does seem like a pretty good idea.
Comment · 9 years ago
A regressive tax like this must disincentivize freelancing and thus prevent a lot of economic activity. What are the benefits?
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